I saw this image of a religious soldier associated with an AP article yesterday. The juxtaposition in this picture pretty much says it all (...

John Horgan is a freelance science writer, now writing for The Center for Science Writings . His blog site, is called the Scientific Curmudg...

There is a Philosophy radio show called "Philosophy Talk". I often listen to podcasts of their programs after they've aired, a...

I don’t often touch on politics on this blog; at least not current hot-button political issues. The reasons are several: (1) I want this sit...

There is an interesting thing I’ve noticed recently about certain types of songs, which I’ll call ‘prescriptive songs’. These are songs whic...

I've just come across a fascinating lecture at www.gnosis.org , given by a Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller. It's called " Gnostic Cinema...

Did you know that if you went back in time to 3000 BCE, to any village on the planet, and approached a person of any race, that this person ...

Texas Officials End Crusade To Deny Exemption To Dallas-Area Group Americans United for Seperation of Church & State Officials in the ...

Update - July 20, 2006: Unfortunately, Rick has had to remove his site for the time being, so the links below will probably not function. I...

Today is World Humanist Day as well as the summer solstice. World Humanist Day is, of course, celebrated by Humanists and we folks being a ...